Warper-comb



{No Model.)

A. E. RHOADES.

WARPER COMB.

No. 602,771. PatentedApr. 19,1898.

UNTTE STATES PATENT EETcE.

ALONZO E. RHOADES, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DRAPER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE AND PORTLAND, MAINE.

WARPER-CQMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,771, dated April 19, 1898.

Application filed July 23, 1897. Serial No. 645,663. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: of the adj usting-shaft a the sleeves to will be Be it known that I, ALoNZo E. RHOADES, moved toward or from each other to permit of IIopedale, in the county of Worcester and the coils of the springs to contract or expand State of Massachusetts, have invented an Imto thereby vary the distance between the 5 provement in VVarper-Combs, of which the warp-guides in usual manner.

following description, in connection with the I have herein shown the warp-guides as upaccompanying drawings, is a specification, right wires g, rounded in cross-section at their like letters on the drawings representing like upper ends and having flattened shanks g to parts. pass between the coils of the springs, the IO This invention relates to warpercombs lower ends of the shanks entering a longituused on warpers to separate the threads leaddinal recess a formed in the stand A, a rein g to the beam. taining-wire (1 being extended loosely through It is necessary in these devices to separate holes in the feet of the guides. or bring nearer together the upright wires or In order to permit the rounded guides to I 5 guides which serve to divide the warp-threads, be brought into close proximity and to still and this is usually accomplished by means of allow the warp-threads to pass freely between a coiled spring, the guides being inserted bethem, I have so constructed the guides that tween the coils, and by suitable mechanism the upper rounded ends of the alternate the spring is expanded or allowed to contract. guides will be staggered, as clearly shown in 2o Heretofore the guides have been fiat and they Fig. 3. This is conveniently effected by makcould thus be crowded together very closely ing the shank somewhat wider than the diwhen necessary. In my present invention I ameter of the upper end of the guide, as best use upright guides rounded in cross-section shown in Fig. 2, and offset from the latter in order to avoid catching of the warps and along one edge, adjacent guides having their 25 to present a smoother surface for the passhanks oppositely turned. Bystaggering the sage of the threads, and by using the round alternate guides, as described, they may be 7 guides I have found it necessary to arrange moved very closely together when necessary them in a certain order, so that when moved without interfering with the free passage of close together they will still permit the warpthe warp-threads w. 0 threads to readily pass by. A cap A of usual construction, (shown in Figure l is a front elevation, centrally Figs. 2 and 3,) protects the springs and adjabroken out, of a sufficient portion of a warpercent mechanism from dust and dirt, the top comb to be understood with my invention edges of the cap and stand leaving a clearembodied therein, the front or cover plate anoe-space through which the upright guides 35 being removed. Fi 2 is a transverse secpass.

tional view taken on the line as 00, Fig. 1, with The round guides being greater in diameter the cap in place; and Fig. 3 is a partial top than the width of the fiat Wires formerly used or plan View of the apparatus shown in Fig. act to deliver the yarn more evenly onto the 1 with the cap in place. beam. 40 The transverse stand or supportA, recessed lVith the thin flat guides, when separated in its front face to receive the adjusting 001- to leave considerable space between any two lars or sleeves a, mounted upon a right and of them, the. threads had room to assume difleft screw-threaded adjusting shaft or rod ct, ferent positions, while the round guides limit A mounted in suitable bearings upon the supthe threads to a more definite position. 45 port A, the coiled springs s 3, arranged in Having fully described my invention, what pairs, the longitudinally-extendedguidesZ) b, I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patextended through the springs and secured to ent, isthe stand at their ends, and the pins b se- 1. Inawarper-comb,a series of warp-guides curing the springs to the adjustable sleeves having flattened shanks offset therefrom al- I00 50 a, are and may be all as common in warperternately in opposite directions, whereby the combs, it being understood that by rotation shanks are in alinement and the upper ends of the guides are staggered, substantially as described.

2. In a warper-comb,a series of Warp-guides rounded in cross-sections at their upper ends, and having flattened shanks ofiset therefrom alternately in opposite directions, whereby the shanks are in alinement and the upper ends of the guides are staggered, substantially as described.

3. In a warper-comb, a supporting-stand having a longitudinal recess therein, a series of warp-guides having flattened shanks to enter said recess, and means to vary the distance between the guides,the flattened shanks of said guides being ofiset therefrom alternately in opposite directions, whereby while the shanks are in alinernent in the longitudinal recess of the stand the upper ends of the guides are staggered, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALONZO E. RHOADES.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. OTIS DRAPER, HERBERT S. MANLEY. 

